Lost books

Titel: Lost books : reconstructing the print world of pre-industrial Europe / edited by Flavia Bruni, Andrew Pettegree
Beteiligt: ;
Veröffentlicht: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Umfang: XVII, 523 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 25 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Library of the written word ; volume 46
Library of the written word. The handpress world ; volume 34
RVK-Notation:
Schlagworte:
ISBN: 9789004311817 ; 9004311815 ; 9789004311824
Buchumschlag
X
  • List of Abbreviations
  • p. ix
  • Notes on Contributors
  • p. x
  • 1
  • The Legion of the Lost. Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe
  • p. 1
  • Part 1
  • In the Beginning: Lost Incunabula
  • 2
  • The Gutenberg Galaxy's Dark Matter: Lost Incunabula, and Ways to Retrieve Them
  • p. 31
  • 3
  • Lost Incunable Editions: Closing in on an Estimate
  • p. 55
  • Part 2
  • National Case-Studies
  • 4
  • Lost Books of Polyphony from Renaissance Spain
  • p. 75
  • 5
  • Lost Books, Lost Libraries, Lost Everything? A Scandinavian Early Modern Perspective
  • p. 101
  • 6
  • In Search of Lost Fortuna. Reconstructing the Publishing History of the Polish Book of Fortune-Telling
  • p. 120
  • 7
  • Lost Print in England: Entries in the Stationers' Company Register, 1557-1640
  • p. 144
  • 8
  • Survival Factors of Seventeenth-Century Hand-Press Books Published in the Southern Netherlands: The Importance of Sheet Counts, Sammelbände and the Role of Institutional Collections
  • p. 160
  • 9
  • Publicity and Its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic
  • p. 202
  • 10
  • Lost Books and Dispersed Libraries in Sicily during the Seventeenth Century
  • p. 223
  • Part 3
  • Censorship and Its Consequences
  • 11
  • Lost Issues and Self-Censorship: Rethinking the Publishing History of Guillaume Budé's De l'Institution du Prince
  • p. 239
  • 12
  • The Editorial History of a Rare and Forbidden Franciscan Book of the Italian Renaissance: The Dialogo delta Unione Spirituale di Dio con l'anbna by Bartolomeo Cordoni
  • p. 276
  • 13
  • An Unknown Best-Seller: The Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo
  • p. 291
  • 14
  • The Devil's Trick. Impossible Editions in the Lists of Titles from the Regular Orders in Italy at the End of the Sixteenth Century
  • p. 310
  • 15
  • On the Track of Lost Editions in Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century: A Numerical Analysis of the RICI Database
  • p. 324
  • Part 4
  • Libraries, Private and Public
  • 16
  • Loss and Meaning. Lost Books, Bibliographic Description and Significance in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Private Library
  • p. 347
  • 17
  • Confiscated Manuscripts and Books: What Happened to the Personal Library and Archive of Hugo Grotius Following His Arrest on Charges of High Treason in August 1618?
  • p. 362
  • 18
  • Dispersed Collections of Scientific Books: The Case of the Private Library of Federico Cesi (1585-1630)
  • p. 386
  • 19
  • Lost in Plain Sight: Rediscovering the Library of Sir Hans Sloane
  • p. 400
  • 20
  • Book Use and Sociability in Lost Libraries of the Eighteenth Century: Towards a Union Catalogue
  • p. 414
  • Part 5
  • War and Peace: The Depredations of Modern Times
  • 21
  • Lost Books of 'Operation Gomorrah': Rescue, Reconstruction, and Restitution at Hamburg's Library in the Second World War
  • p. 441
  • 22
  • Two Centuries of Looting and the Grand Nazi Book Burning. The Dispersed and Destroyed Libraries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Historical Losses and Contemporary Attempts at Reconstruction
  • p. 462
  • 23
  • All is not Lost. Italian Archives and Libraries in the Second World War
  • p. 469
  • 24
  • Tracing Lost Broadsheet Ordinances Printed in Sixteenth-Century Cologne
  • p. 488
  • Index
  • p. 505